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PL/I Compilers

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JVM bytecode

A compiler that generates JVM byte code would be a great thing I think. If the compiler runs on IBM OS-es only then your customers will keep to develop on your hardware...A PL/I <==> Java direct call facility would be the hit.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Support for YYYDDD in date patterns

Please add support for the YYYDDD format in date patterns.
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Enhance FILEDDWORD Built-in Function

Please add support for LRECL and BLKSIZE.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Provide utility which reports missing prerequisites for a specific compiler version in a specific environment

We would like to be able to run a utility from SIBMZCMP library which checks and reports, which prerequisites for the current compiler build are missing in a specific environment.
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Additional I or W type message for questionable code

I've recently been asked to look at code that relies on compiler dependent initialisation of FIXED DEC variables. The code works from (at least) OS PL/I (V2.3.0) all the way up to EPLI V4R5M0, the IBM Innovation Center - Dallas system hasn't yet i...
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Include a hex dump of STATIC and AUTOMATIC storage in the PLIDUMP output and have the compiler produce a listing giving these

AUTOMATIC and STATIC variables are not included in PLIDUMP.
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add package declaration of entries to allow “non-unique” entry names in different PACKAGEs (including LIKE statement)

Given the simplified Use Case we face the problem that we need to code long entry names to make it unique: 1. We have a customer package with the name YCDSGET with a getBalance function to return the overall balance (sum as decimal float) of the g...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add RULES(NOLAXFILEIO)

We want to avoid I/O-errors and -problems with the standard that user-defined files have to be explicitly opened before and closed after processing but not system-defined files: Therefore we would like to get a new RULES suboption such as [NO]LAXF...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for DELIMITED BY to READ statement

We would like the ability to read variable length files delimited by a user specified field separator directly into a record layout. Input file:'12345','TEST LINE''67','ANOTHER TEST LINE' ON ENDFILE(MYFILE) BEGIN; EOF_MYFILE = '1'b; END; DECLARE M...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

PLI Compiler support for x86 Linux platforms

IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development is an Eclipse based product that bundles the PLI importer functionality provided by RAD. We have a customer whose workstations are running Linux on the x86 architecture. They are unable to use our impo...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

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